Lucie Audibert

Lucie is a solicitor qualified in England & Wales, specialised in strategic litigation and advice at the intersection of human rights, data protection, public law, national security and digital/technology regulation. She has particular expertise in supporting individuals, groups and communities to exercise their rights and seek redress against government and corporate actors.

Prior to AWO, Lucie was a Senior Legal Officer at global NGO Privacy International, where she brought strategic legal challenges at the intersection of technology and human rights. She secured enforcement action against the UK government’s policy of GPS tagging migrants, led third-party interventions in the High Court and at the European Court of Human Rights in challenges to Mobile Phone Extraction in policing and immigration control, and successfully challenged a number of FOI refusals leading to high-profile disclosures. Lucie also led legal advocacy on major EU regulatory initiatives such as the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive or Artificial Intelligence Act, and advised UN agencies on AI, data protection, surveillance and business & human rights.

She has written for a number of academic publications on technology and human rights law, such as a chapter in The Palgrave Handbook on Racial Injustice and Resistance, or articles in SCRIPTed - A Journal of Law, Technology & Society, Computers & Law, the Oxford Business Law Blog or French journal Plein Droit. She has published opinion pieces in Al Jazeera and Le Monde, and is regularly quoted in leading media outlets such as The Guardian, BBC or WIRED. She is a a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh on migration and forced displacement in a digital age.

Lucie also has expertise in Intellectual Property advice and litigation, having trained and worked as an associate at Taylor Wessing LLP. She accepts instructions on IP matters, notably when these intersect with Artificial Intelligence and creatives' rights issues.

She holds a Bachelor of Laws from the London School of Economics and a Bachelor of Commerce from McGill University. She recently graduated from the MSc in International Human Rights Law at the University of Oxford, with the Christof Heyns prize for highest overall mark in her cohort.